[Haskell-cafe] idea: ratings (or maybe comments) for packages in hackage

[Carter Schonwald]

The beauty of open source is everyone is busy,  so people only work on
things they truly care about!



On Tuesday, November 5, 2013, Ömer Sinan Ağacan wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I must admit that I didn't read all responses in detail, but what I
> figured is that we just can't make everyone happy. I think what's need
> to be done is someone create a webpage that uses hackage pages, but
> adds ratings/comments/whatever to the same page so that we can at
> least discuss and rate packages and then wait for users to contribute.
>
> Of course the obvious question is why not do it myself? This is
> because I'm currently very busy and I can't spare my time for this.
> (also, I'm not very experienced in web stuff so it costs me more time
> than it costs someone more experienced in this stuff)
>
> ---
> Ömer Sinan Ağacan
> http://osa1.net
>
>
> 2013/11/5 Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss at gmail.com <javascript:;>>:
> > Curtis Gagliardi <gagliardi.curtis at gmail.com <javascript:;>> writes:
> >
> >> Integrating with github stars was what I imagined.  I was thinking of
> maybe
> >> forking http://www.clojuresphere.com/ and trying to get it to work with
> >> haskell projects.  It looks pretty viable since hackage appears to have
> >> downloads and haskellers.com looks like it has the dependency graph
> stuff
> >> already done.
> >>
> > I'm not sure about this. It seems like a rather indirect metric. I, for
> > one, often use Github's star feature as more of a bookmark facility than
> > anything else; a reminder to have a look at a project when there are
> > free cycles. In my experience stars are rarely removed so there is really
> > no way to account for stagnation. Instead, the metric turns into more of
> > an indicator of project age than quality.
> >
> > I'll admit that I may have been overcomplicating things in suggesting a
> > multidimensional rating space, however.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > - Ben
> >
> >
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